Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were 75 Democrats in the Senate then. Caucusing, they threw their ballots into Carter Glass's battered old Panama. The first 74 to be counted were evenly divided; the 75th was for Alben Barkley. When the result was announced, he bit off the stem of his briar pipe...
...society notes, found them "so much drip." Nineteen months ago she asked for and got another assignment: writing about the 125,000 workers who make her native Portland one of the shipbuildingest centers of the U.S. Her "By the Ways" column is crammed with names of men & women pipe fitters, torch-scissorers, crane wanglers, and with what they...
Death in Jigtime. Curare's "poisonous reputation" began in 1595 when Sir Walter Raleigh sailed up the Orinoco and found the jungle Indians killing game with blow pipe darts dipped in black, tarry stuff (curare) cooked up from native plants (see cut). Its reputation was not improved when 19th-Century experimenters found that curare victims die from asphyxia caused by paralysis of their breathing muscles. Time: a few seconds...
...Colonel laid down the telephone and chewed on his pipe. Lieut. Colonel Roy Moore was working another telephone. "Why aren't you firing your artillery?" he snapped. He was told that the forward observer had not been heard from; the unit had lost its own artillery eyes...
Shooting It Out. Wiry Major George Spencer Roberts,* 25-year-old commander of the squadron, pulled at his pipe, told newsmen that so far as he and the boys were concerned, it was just a matter of getting an opportunity and jumping...